Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-06-24
THE TEHUAETEPEo SHIP RAILWAY
row Col. andrews Came 10 s,.o...
Capt. Eads.

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Capt. Eads.
DAYS a Pittsburgh dispatch 10 ~. 3,
no4's Globe Democrat: Col. Andrew
ives IN princely style on Nunnery hllI
niesheny. His residence stands ~
lhe rounded summit of mornta;n
I've hundred feet above the Allegheny
'iser. Statuary from Italy, PAINTINGS
auu iresco work by French artists and
o"r'oslties and bric-a-brac from Mexi-
~ central America, Egypt, Europe.
anu different parts of the world IN he
partial mansion. Most Of his time h.
spends abroad. Mrs. Andrews was
win him in Mexico when Capt Eads
neg. She has since come home.
Inc story of how Col. Andrews s,o
ceeded Capt. Eads reads like romance
Just before his death. Capt. Eads
'a'u 10 an assemblage Of Pittsburgh
business men:
ooL Andrews has always been nv
onief support in great undertakincs
we married sisters, and have alvavs
been linked together socially as well
as IN business life. Forty three wears
ago the first iron steamer that ever
noated in the Mississippi valley was
ouiit here and soon afterward snnk at
,he graveyard, on the Mississipni
twenty miles above Cairo. just about
tnat time | had formed copartnersbin
with my diseased and beloved friend
william ). Nelson. for the purpose of
recovering such property, and one Of
our hrst successes consisted in raising
INA. IN very steamer, the Valley Forge.
ihat achievement brought us in con-
tact with Reuben Miller. Sr.. John
Harper. Sr, and several others of yonr
most honored citizens. FRIENDSHIPS
were formed then which have been I'M
marred by single incident from that
DAY TO this. The underwriters OF Pitts
burgh were the first to appoint the
young finn of Eads & Nelson their gen.
eral agents to attend to their marine
losses on the entire western waters, a
mark OF confidence which was soon
followed by nearly every marine insur
ance company in the United States,
While the operations of the firm extend
ed from Pittsburgh and Galena to the
Gulf of Mexico.
wv hen the war broke out Pitts
purgh supplied me with boilers, en-
gines, and lumber, and thousand and
one things needed in building the four
teen n-clad gunboats which kept the
river open from Cairo to New Orleans,
and the men who furnished them
agreed to wait for their pay until got
mine from the government When the
bridge across the Mississippi at St.
Lonis was undertaken Pittsburgh
proMply responded to the call for iron
and steel for it, undertaking every
body else. Pittsburgh men built the
superstructure, while my stalwart and
honored friend from Allegheny, James
Andrews, founded its everlasting
piers on the solid rock more than 13O
feet below the floods of the turbulent
river. When congress authorized US
to deepen the mouth of the great river,
aga appealed to my trends here,
Allegheny Andrews undertook to
execute the work and Pittsburgh men
supplied the stone, the coal, the will
lows. machinery, etc, and they ad-
vanced large portion of the money we
needed, accepting the only security for
it that we had to ofler-namelv, the
assurance which we gave them that We
could make the old river deepen its
own mouth by applying to it brush and
stone ietties. Success was pay and
profit, failure was utter loss, but our
lexicon does not contain any such word
as failure. Having thus virtually ex-
tended the mouth of the great rivey in
to the Atlantic, through the Florida
straits, and opened up to the people of
this great interior valley the markets
of one-half of the world. we propose
now to finish that work By extending
the Mississippi river into the Pacific
ocean; that is, by building a railway to
carry our ships across the Andes.
where they have inyitingly bowed their
mighty crests low down, almost to the
sea level, and at the very spot where
they are nearest of all others to the
Father of Waters